Mattie posts

I got around to watching yesterday's J! episode today (putting in some hours at the home office!) and I couldn't help but be impressed with the contestants -- two all-in Daily Doubles?  It also helped that I got 46 correct and nailed the Final!, but...twenty years ago no one would have done this, but now it is...common.  I guess I like it; on the one hand it is a blunt strategy, but on the other... it IS a strategy, and it certainly takes some stones to pull off.

I noted that I am "stuck" at 185 pounds....for now.  I have been trying to eat healthier -- halfway through a bag of frozen tilapia for dinners, and I made (half) baked potatoes for lunch -- but I think it is activity.  The gym might not be an option with the next couple of days, but I can at least meander around the house more.  That is just holding serve, but even if I added some reading (in addition to pacing during the commercial breaks) while pacing...well, I would feel better, and we all know how important that is.  I guess I could really help by eliminating my restaurant visits, but I do have a food list, and I am on a kick to cross a few off now.  I could also skip them and use the money to pay off the HELOC; not that $20 or so would materially affect it, but every balance reduction is that much less interest.  Then I tell myself I really am a cheap bastard...  (insert Latin quote from the miser here)

‘Back on the air’ - Fulton Sheen beatification to be announced
This is cool?!  Interesting that they held it up due to the pedophilia scandal.  Not that they shouldn't, but I suspect that the number of bishops immune to the scandal are few and far-between.  Sigh.

Exclusive | Trump Administration Takes Aim at Home-Builder Stock Buybacks - WSJ
This could be me, but why stop at home builders?  In this era of the new and populist GOP, there are literally dozens of industries where firms have been buying back stock, posting killer margins, and raising prices, and at some point it is ok to call them out on it.  I realize that I rather enjoy this aspect of the new and populist GOP, but...

GOP leaders throw cold water on Trump’s credit-card push - Live Updates - POLITICO
Similarly, the GOP should be all over this; there are plenty of people who don't even know how badly high interest rates are affecting them, and these are the people who could and would vote for the GOP if you led them to water.  Hell, POTUS should be using his bully pulpit and castigate the CFPB (and Pocohontas!) for not attacking this (and point out how worthless of an agency it is).  The politics and the optics would be...awesome.